March 2010

  • Get Them Pants Off The Ground

    By dfunzy on 3/30/10 7:21am
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    NY Sen. Eric AdamsNY Sen. Eric AdamsAs part of an initiative  to start a conversation about positive self  images  in the community among young people, and to remind young people of the importance of combating negative stereotypes,  New York State Senator  Eric Adams of  Brooklyn,  has posted a video on YouTube called, "Stop the Sag."

    State Sen. Eric Adams will also be launching a billboard campaign in Brooklyn, as part of a larger effort  "targeting the pants-sagging trend popular with many young men," with the message,  "we are better than this." The billboards,will feature "two young men wearing low-hanging pants above the phrase, 'Raise your pants, raise your image.' "  Senator Adams  reminds young people, "that the sagging trend originated from prison culture."

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  • Wall Street Justice: Madoff Prison Beat-down?

    By dfunzy on 3/18/10 7:03am
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    Bernard MadoffBernard MadoffThis morning's  Wall Street Journal  has an article with considerable details, about an incident that three felons said took place, but officials at the Bureau of Prison denied happened, the "beat down," smacking around, punching, butt whipping, that notorious, crooked crook of the century, Bernard Madoff received last December, and was sent to a prison hospital, with a "broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face at the hands ." The Journal presents the alleged attacker as some one wronged by the creep Madoff. Even points out that in prison Madoff "socialized with reputed Colombo crime-family boss Carmine Persico" --making it clear that the 71 year old bum doesn't deserve any sympathy.

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